Ben Affleck wins the DGA Award, proving once and for all ‘Argo’ didn’t direct itself?

Everyone, it seems, lovesBen Affleck except the Academy Award nominating committee. TheArgo director/producer/actor racked up another award this past weekend, winning best director honors from the Directors Guild of America. He beat out Steven Spielberg for Lincoln, Ang Lee for Life of Pi, Tom Hooper for Les Miserables and Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty.

Affleck was famously “snubbed” last month when the Oscar nominations were announced, as were Hooper and Bigelow. In their places were Michael Haneke for Amour, David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook and Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild. All three directors’ films are among the nine up for best picture, though.

Since then, however, the 40-year-old previous Oscar winner has taken the best director mantle at the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice Awards, and Argo won the best cast award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

So now it’s time to ask …….

Will 'Argo' win Best Picture at the Oscars even without a director nomination for Ben Affleck?